Moquegua surpasses Lima in mobile internet speed

The Mobile Internet Monitoring Panel of the Supervisory Body for Private Investment in Telecommunications (Osiptel) reported that during January 2022 only six regions were above the national average for mobile internet speed and eleven increased their results compared to what was reported in December.

In the first group, for the first time in the measurement, a region surpassed the speed of Lima and ranked second with the best speed result at the national level. This is Moquegua, which scored 11.39 Mbps (megabit per second), higher average speed than Lima (11.35 Mbps) and only below Callao (11.53 Mbps). While the regions with the lowest performance were San Martín (9.21 Mbps), Huancavelica (8.94 Mbps) and Loreto (7.45 Mbps).

Osiptel’s Mobile Internet Monitoring Panel also reported that the 4G coverage time nationwide was 87.01% on average, with Movistar being the operator with the best performance in the entire territory, with a coverage time of 88.58%. %, followed by Entel (87.09%) and Claro (86.20%), while Bitel presented 86.01%.

Result by companies

The competition thermometer for download speed (download) in Peru’s mobile internet service marked 10.49 Mbps on average for 4G networks in January.

The operating companies Entel and Claro obtained the best average performance in January with 11.40 Mbps and 11.36 Mbps, respectively. For its part, Movistar registered 10.29 Mbps and Bitel 7.34 Mbps.

Osiptel also reported that Bitel and Movistar increased their monthly result compared to December by 0.15 Mbps and 0.04 Mbps each.Of course remained the same and Entel dropped 0.13 Mbps.

The data

latency Latency performance (an indicator that analyzes whether online content is accessed with more or less delay) decreased again in favor of users to an average of 98.76 ms (milliseconds) for 4G networks, reported Osiptel.